Ölbaum’s Delirium

The new iMac G5 looks great. And it must be, considering that the only excuse for whining at the latest announcement from Apple so far has been that AirPort and Bluetooth are optional. Not missing, mind you, just optional.

Chuck Toporek:

But one thing that seems like a glaring miscue is that AirPort cards and Bluetooth continue to be options. Why?

I understand how tedious it must be for Mr. Toporek to select these options on the Apple Store every time he’s ordering a new Mac. But then, so it is having to choose between desktop and portable, iBook and PowerBook, iMac and PowerMac, low end, middle end and high end, iPod or no iPod. Maybe Apple should sell only one product, the ToporekMac.

Whine dismissed, let’s move on.

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Well, that’s a novel way of looking at time-limited demos:

The Dreamcard Evaluation Edition is a free 10 hour trial with no restrictions on functionality. Use the 10 hours as and when you want.

It’s a nice idea considering that when I download an n days demos, I tend to launch it right away, play with it for a bit and then forget about it for n-1 days.

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